Jin ling shi er chai zheng ce "Er shi nian lai bian shi fei" 金陵十二釵正册 "二十年来辨是非"
by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (ca. 1715–ca. 1763)
Dynasty: Qing 清 (1644–1911)
Included in: Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹. Gao E 高鶚 (ed.). Hongloumeng 红楼梦 Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973. 57.
Translations
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David Hawkes (1923–2007): Jinling, Twelve Beauties of, Main Register: "You shall, when twenty years in life's hard school are done"
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in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 134. -
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): First Register of Twelve Beauties of Chinling: "For twenty years she arbitrates"
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in: Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益. A Dream of Red Mansions: Volume 1. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. p. 75.
二十年来辨是非，榴花开处照宮闈； 三春爭及初春景，虎兔相逢大梦归。